Vicious Game

I came up with story, while I was sitting in the library, and I saw this lacrosse player studying in the library. It got me thinking about Lacrosse and how violent of a game it is, especially for women, who don’t wear pads. I feel like this story is something that would happen in real life, not just in lacrosse but in any rough sport.

She sits so innocently in the library studying and getting her work done; who would think that inside her is a beast that is just waiting to be unleashed this afternoon. She had just rolled out of bed, still tired from her long weekend of snowboarding and threw on her favorite sweatshirt from her high school lacrosse team, with a pair of sweatpants and sneakers. She doesn’t bother to put any make up on and just pulls back her hair in a ponytail and heads down to the library. She picks a table in the back away from most people and she sits down, takes out her MacBook and powers through the homework she wasn’t able to finish last night. She looks at the time; a look of panic comes across her face. She is late for class again. She quickly packs up her things and dashes across campus as fast as she can without slipping on the ice. She gets to class and the professor scolds her for being late for the 5th time this semester. She makes it through her classes, has quick snack and runs down to the P.E. Center.

This is what she has been waiting for all day, and what motivated her to get through her classes. It was time for Lacrosse practice. They warm up and then get into running drills. The whole team is pumped for the first game tomorrow against their rival team Keene State.  This is Caitlyn, she is the captain of the Women’s Lacrosse team. She is especially excited for this game, because her long-time rival, Allison, is the captain of Keene’s team.

In the morning her nerves are up so she decides to go to the gym for a quick work out to calm herself down. She goes to lunch and then heads down to get ready for the game. The game begins and Caitlyn is playing extremely well but the rest of the team is still a little rusty and aren’t playing so well, which isn’t good because Keene is playing great today. This gets Caitlyn very frustrated because they practiced so hard. She starts playing rougher and harder as she gets more frustrated with her team. Keene keeps scoring on them. In the end Keene wins and as soon as the time runs out, an animal comes out of her. She dash across the field raging, runs up to the celebrating team, stick in hand, and with as much force as she can she beats the captain, Allison. She hits her and hits her repeatedly until she falls to the ground and stops moving. Her teammates finally pull her off of her, but its too late. They check and her pulse is gone.  Allison is dead. Caitlyn bolts across the field and takes off.  She is too fast for anybody to catch her. The police start looking for her. The finally find her a few miles down the river. She was found motionless on the bank of the Pemi River in Ashland. She jumped off of the bridge when ran off.